Significance of Cross Platform Mobile App development

Posted by arun on September 22nd, 2014

Cross platform mobile app development is an important strategy followed by app developers round the world today. The purpose of this is to use an application developed across a variety platforms such as Symbian, Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Operating Systems. These are amongst the most popular and widely used platforms and this makes cross platform mobile app development imperative as any app developed needs to be usable across platforms.

Each platform for mobile application has an integrated development environment which provides the developer facilities to write, to test and to deploy the application into the target platform environment. The criteria for selecting a particular development platform previously were based on existing infrastructure and development skills. But, when targeting more than one platform with the cross platform development it is really important to test and consider the impact of the tool and also the user experience factor. Performance also acts as an important criterion as the research on mobile application indicates a strong correlation between the user satisfaction and application performance.

In today’s corporate world, an increasingly popular and growing trend is BYOD - Bring Your Own Device. Unlike the traditional practices of the offices providing the staff with desktops and laptops, employees are permitted to bring their own equipments for the work related purposes these days. Due to this, corporate business apps have become very popular and there is a need for many such apps across platforms. There are application stores from where users can surf and purchase their required apps for their needs. Several such initiatives exist from mobile vendors as well as network providers around the world. The main stores these days are the Apples App Store and the Android’s Play Store with more than half a million apps in it readily. Users can check for their requirement and select for the best one that serves their purpose.

One among the commonly used platforms these days is Blackberry and thus there is a heavy demand for a good Blackberry app Development Company for developing customized apps for employees.

What does a Blackberry app development company do?

•Content delivery application

•Internet based application

•Smartphone solutions

•High quality game development

•Client server application

•Business to consumer application

•ERP applications, wireless entertainment

•Rich multimedia application

•Business intelligence application

•CRM applications